I had the same thought when I heard you were blow-torching the spiders…it sounded more dangerous than the spiders, but now makes sense. We have too much vegetation too close to the house to consider blow-torching, but now I’m worried that I need to do something else for those spiders. I’ve never heard of anyone being bit by one, but it must happen around here.

I saw a spider just hanging out in the kitchen sink when I came downstairs one morning, and I’m pretty sure it was a black widow. My husband also saw what he thinks was one underneath our built-in BBQ, which we have to practically crawl into in order to turn on the gas everytime we BBQ. This is really giving me the heebie jeebies (technical term similar to “skeeve”). Is there a company that specializes in spiders?

We had Corky’s on a monthly $45 plan for ant control (came home several times to a huge ant trail traveling through the kitchen door, up the wall into the cabinet where the honey and sugar are kept) until our neighbors told us they use those little disks that you place on the floor in the corners. Sure enough, we’ve been using those for 2 years now, and we never have the ant trails. But, maybe the spiders are a bigger issue.